The Women on the 6th Floor

by Philippe Le Guay

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Paris in 1960. Jean-Louis and Suzanne Joubert are no longer exactly youthful. This stockbroker and his wife live a quiet, middle-class existence in an
elegant tenement building. You might even describe their lives as dull –
especially since the children have been packed off to boarding school.
Things are a good deal livelier on the sixth floor of their building where all
the female staff live. The most recent arrivals are ‘guest workers’ from Spain:
six women of different ages from Burgos.
Jean-Louis finds himself increasingly drawn into their world – a world that
is so different to his own. The main reason for his fascination is Concepción, a mature but still attractive Spanish woman for whom this man, who is
somehow greying both outside and in, develops a quiet passion. He also
develops a genuine interest in her colleagues, and this sees him popping
upstairs to the sixth floor with increasing regularity in order to enjoy the
refreshingly different, friendly atmosphere that prevails. But the more he
learns about this different world, the more difficult it becomes for him to
return to his own marital home.

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